„I Kiss your hands many times” by Marianne Szegedy-Maszák
Jewish Culture Festival, Copenhagen
Date: 4 June 2020, 4-5pm
Venue: Jewish Information Center,
Krystalgade 12, Copenhagen 1172
The Embassy of Hungary participates every year at the Jewish Culture Festival in various forms, such as concerts, panel discussions, screenings, etc. At this years’ event we wish to broaden our palette and put in spotlight an outstanding family memoir, “I Kiss Your Hands Many Times”, written by Marianne Szegedy-Maszák, author and award-winning journalist from Washington DC.
The magnificent wartime love story of her parents gives a panoramic and gripping narrative of a vanished world of great wealth and power, restoring an important missing chapter of European, Hungarian, and Holocaust history. “Marianne Szegedy-Maszák’s parents, Hanna and Aladár, met and fell in love in Budapest in 1940. He was a rising star in the foreign ministry—a vocal anti-Fascist who was in talks with the Allies when he was arrested and sent to Dachau. She was the granddaughter of Manfred Weiss, the industrialist patriarch of an aristocratic Jewish family that owned factories, were patrons of intellectuals and artists, and entertained dignitaries at their baronial estates.”
The book and the story behind it will be genuinely presented by Marianne Szegedy-Maszák herself which will be then followed by an open discussion, moderated by Katalin Deme, associate lecturer at Aarhus University. The event will be held in English.
*Bearing in mind the safety measures introduced by the Danish Government, we kindly ask you to confirm your attendance at your earliest convenience, and no later than 31 May 2021, here on the Facebook event or on the following address protocol.cph@mfa.gov.hu
Learn more and about the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Kiss-Your-Hands-Many-Times/dp/0385524854
About the Festival: www.jkfestival.dk
We look forward welcoming you at the event and learn about your share of thoughts!
